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| 1. Abe Lincoln Vs Madsion Avenue | |||
| 2. Cruise Of The USS Codfish | |||
| 3. Merchandising The Wright Brothers | |||
| 4. Driving Instructor | |||
| 5. Grace L Ferguson Airline (And Storm Door Co) | |||
| 6. Bus Drivers School | |||
| 7. Retirement Party | |||
| 8. Ledge Psychology | |||
| 9. Rocket Scientist | |||
| 10. Uncle Freddie Show | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Introducing Tobacco To Civilization | |||
| 2. Siamese Cat | |||
| 3. Defusing A Bomb | |||
| 4. Friend With A Dog | |||
| 5. Expectant Father | |||
| 6. On Poodles And Planes | |||
| 7. Man Who Looked Like Hitler | |||
| 8. King Kong | |||
| 9. Returning A Gift | |||
| 10. Buying A House | |||
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Product Description
Something Like This... is a generous sampling of Bob Newhart's best stand-up bits. Part of what Bob Newhart mastered, earlier on stand-up albums like The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart and The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! and later on his long-running American television series The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, was capturing a brand of Everyman neuroses and heightening it, bringing mundane, common scenarios into the realm of the absurd--and the absurdly funny. Newhart also perfected playing a character involved in a conversation with the other party in absentia, as in one of his most famous routines, "King Kong", in which he plays the part of an Empire State Building security guard who calls his boss the night King Kong makes his famous ascent. ("Yes, sir, I looked in the handbook index under "unauthorized personnel" and "people without passes" and "apes", and "ape's toes", but it's not in there...."). While some of his topics--airplanes, hating to fly--have now been so overdone as to be comic faux pas, rather than making his material seem dated they often serve to demonstrate just how rare a talent he is simply because the routines still elicit involuntary snorts of laughter some 30 years later. --Mark Hunstman
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Unique among even the most cutting-edge standup comics of the '60s, Bob Newhart entertained his audiences not with snappy patter and jokes, but with long monologues in which his voice represented one side of a conversation, the other side left to the listener's imagination. This idiosyncratic format proved endlessly adaptable, as Newhart spun seemingly endless scenarios from it. Before he became a beloved TV star with the Bob Newhart Show, he released several popular comedy albums, from which the best moments have been culled for inclusion on this definitive two-disc compilation. Whether he'sadvising Abraham Lincoln, confronting King Kong, or gettingblitzed at a retirement party (among other comedic situations to be found here), Newhart employs his patented mild-mannered, "button-down" personality to subtle but sharp comic effect.
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